Special Analysis 2008

Part A. Students Who Enroll in Community Colleges Immediately After High School

Table S-SA-23. Standard errors for the percentage distribution of the spring 1992 12th-grade cohort, by immediate and delayed postsecondary enrollment status, control and type of institution, and educational plans and expectations: 1992 and 1994

Immediate enrollment in a postsecondary institution

2-year institution

4-year institution

Delayed enrollment

Plans and expectations

No post-secondaryeducationthrough1994

Total

All

Public

All

Public

Private

Total

In 2-yearinstitutionin 1994

In 4-yearinstitutionin 1994

Total

0.70

0.78

0.61

0.61

0.82

0.62

0.60

0.54

0.41

0.40

Post-high school educational plans

Plan to get postsecondary education

0.59

0.78

0.75

0.75

0.95

0.81

0.75

0.64

0.47

0.51

Don’t plan to continue

1.55

1.16

0.91

0.77

0.63

0.44

0.44

1.29

0.97

0.51

Don’t know or unspecified plans

2.75

2.13

1.68

1.64

1.52

1.17

1.01

2.47

2.31

0.96

Highest educational attainment expected when in 12th-grade (1992)

Don’t know

2.80

2.87

2.23

1.78

1.81

1.43

1.19

2.30

1.99

0.97

High school diploma or less

1.80

1.04

0.95

0.92

0.40

0.39

†

1.59

1.47

0.22

Attend or complete 2-year college

1.67

1.37

1.13

1.04

0.66

0.56

0.37

1.43

1.10

0.43

Attend or complete 4-year college

0.80

1.06

0.91

0.92

1.06

0.91

0.70

0.86

0.65

0.64

Obtain graduate degree

0.83

1.25

1.11

1.10

1.38

1.16

1.28

1.01

0.62

0.81

Highest educational attainment expected 2 years later (1994)

Don’t know

4.20

3.88

2.90

2.80

2.45

2.08

1.39

3.01

2.13

1.48

Attend or complete 2-year college

1.48

1.24

1.14

1.10

0.50

0.36

0.36

1.29

0.98

0.87

Attend or complete 4-year college

0.98

1.18

1.17

1.17

1.00

0.82

0.58

0.92

0.73

0.62

Obtain graduate degree

0.49

0.95

0.84

0.80

1.17

1.14

1.15

0.88

0.64

0.71

† Not applicable.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88/92), “Second Follow-up, 1992.”